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John Sotos on Mary Lincoln and Pernicious Anemia
Mary Lincoln has been a mystery for more than 150 years. Irritable as the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, erratic as First Lady, and frankly psychotic as a widow, she died at the young age of 63 after years of unusual physical symptoms and progressively increasing weakness.
John Sotos, formerly Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, who is now Worldwide Medical Director at Intel Corporation, has solved the mystery in a new article published in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Volume 58, Issue 4).
Sotos' article "What an Affliction" pinpoints pernicious anemia as the root of Mary's poor health during most of her adult life, and as the cause of her death. Pernicious anemia a type of Vitamin B-12 deficiency.
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Hopkins Press Podcast 3.10: Barrett Taylor on Tenure Ban Legislation
On today’s episode, we talk with Barrett Taylor, professor and coordinator of the higher education program at the University of North Texas. He studies the ways in which higher education interfaces with society, investigating topics including state politics...
Hopkins Press Podcast 3.9: Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell is is a public intellectual, a professor of English, a literary historian, an award-winning author and cultural critic, and as of last year she is also a member of the Hopkins Press Advisory Board. Her work has already had quite an impact both...
Hopkins Press Podcast 3.8: Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception
Last January, at the MLA conference in New Orleans, the journal Poe Studies hosted a panel discussion about the influence of Eliza Richards’ book Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. This is a book that has played an important role on the study...
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